24 Mai 2012 17h00
IMM studio A 2.24
Felix Ensslin on Freedom and Aesthetics
The relationship between Lacan and Kant has often been analysed in the context of moral philosophy, and rightly so: Kant avec Sade. Another attempt is made here: to think about this connection on the basis of aesthetics. Kant's reflective judgement as the judgement that first seeks its law and that does not subsume the phenomena that we are confronted with under laws that have already been conceived, has often been taken as the starting point for modern reflections on the connection between aesthetics and politics. Our meeting with another is expressed by this, since a reflective (or more specifically: an aesthetic) judgement can only start from the subject matter. However, it also expresses our freedom, since the pleasure that is specific to the aesthetic indicates indefiniteness and thus freedom. Despite the criticism of the transcendental prevailing since Schiller and Hegel, there have been repeated attempts to keep this legacy of aesthetic freedom manageable for the orientation of the present. This is also essential if the subject of aesthetics – the construction of perception and therefore determination of art – is not to lose its connection to the ordinary. The lecture will examine whether, indirectly, Lacan's psychoanalysis can think productively this paradox of criticising transcendentalism while at the same time maintaining the connection to the ordinary, using aesthetic judgement.
Prof. Dr. Felix Ensslin holds the chair for aesthetics and art education at the Academy of Visual Arts, Stuttgart. He has implemented numerous exhibitions and theatre projects and is co-editor of the Subjektile series at Diaphanes Verlag and founding member of the pli-Psychoanalyse nach Lacan group in Munich, Hamburg, Paris and Stuttgart. He has published numerous contributions on subject theory and philosophy, on aesthetics and on contemporary art.
28 Juni 2012 17h00
IMM studio A 2.24
Matias Aguayo on Cómeme
The record label Cómeme evolved several years ago from the connection between several musicians and DJs resident in South America, who jointly organised street parties in cities such as Buenos Aires or Santiago de Chile and wanted to make the resulting music available to a wider public via the Internet. The label now releases on vinyl, goes on tour with its artists, has established close links with the Cologne music scene and that of other locations in Europe and has established itself as a platform for contemporary dance music that primarily comes from the southern hemisphere.
The label co-founder Matias Aguayo will talk about the formation of the label, its experiences, difficulties and how these difficulties were resolved.
Matias Aguayo, born in Santiago de Chile and grown up in Germany, is a singer, music producer and DJ. As a child of the Cologne electronic scene he began to release his own music in the late 1990s, including several albums and numerous EPs with the labels Kompakt (Cologne) and Souljazz (London). His life has taken him all across Latin America; his tours have taken him all around the globe. At present, he is making a temporary stop in Berlin.
08 November 2012 17h00
IMM studio A 2.24
Helen Schneider on Event Planning
With an all-vinyl campus radio show called Magic Soup, and summer jobs coordinating outdoor festivals and music for the local concert producer/promoter Belkin Productions, (now part of the Live Nation empire) Helen Schneider's career in music and in events started in 1989.
Born in Cleveland, Ohio, she has lived in Washington DC, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, and Cologne and currently resides in Berlin. Since March 2012, Helen has been curating and producing the music industry B2B platform at Berlin Music Week called Word on Sound. Using this event as the primary case study, her talk will examine the creative and production process in conference and event planning for the music industry.
The Berlin Music Week is a five-day event powered by performance, concerts, parties, conferences, panels, seminars and networking opportunities. As a music mecca, Berlin furthers its role as creative provocateur during this event, with offerings that provide audience and professionals a compact panorama of what's trending on the international music market. Berlin Music Week is designed and coordinated by Kulturprojekte Berlin and supported by the Senate Department for Economy, Technology and Research, Berlin Partner and visitBerlin.
13 December 2012 17h00
IMM studio A 2.24
Julian Treasure on the Four Effects of Sound
Sound affects us all in four powerful ways - though most people are not conscious of any of them. In this talk author, international speaker and sound branding agency founder Julian Treasure will explain exactly how sound does influence us in daily life and in commercial activity, what the opportunities are for business to get this right and what the costs are of getting it wrong - as well as how to become more effective in our own personal speaking and listening.
Julian Treasure is chairman of The Sound Agency, a UK-based consultancy that helps international clients like Volkswagen, Harrods, Nokia, Coca-Cola, BP, Marks & Spencer, Bank Muscat, Waldorf Astoria and BAA achieve better results by optimising the sound they make in every aspect of business – for example bringing sound in branding and marketing communication into congruence with visuals, or designing and installing effective and appropriate soundscapes for branded spaces such as shops, offices and corporate receptions.
Julian Treasure is author of the seminal book Sound Business, the first map of the exciting new territory of applied sound for business, now in its second edition and also published in Japanese. He has been widely featured in the world’s media, including TIME Magazine; The Economist; The Times; TV and radio in the UK, US, Canada, Australia and Netherlands; as well as many international trade and business magazines. He is an international speaker on sound and listening, and is one of very few people with three talks on TED.com.
Julian’s vision is to make the world sound beautiful, by helping individuals to listen consciously, and companies to discover that good sound is good business.
31 January 2013 17h00
IMM studio A 2.24
Marcus Roßknecht on Contemporary Music and Media Production
The demands placed on creative artists in the field of music and media production have undergone radical change in recent years. What characteristics does one need to have these days to make it under the continuously changing working conditions? Individual methods of learning and working, a lot of theoretical knowledge and practical expertise? Or simply passion and the right amount of persistence?
In his lecture, Marcus Roßknecht, being a consistently self-taught man, answers these questions from his own very personal perspective. He discusses not only the artistic and creative process in the studio, but also the solutions to the many-layered challenges of a complex company structure.
Marcus Roßknecht (born in 1976) is a DJ, musician and audio engineer, and is currently working as the Head of Marketing at the Berlin-based software/hardware company Native Instruments. His musical career began in 1993 as a techno and house DJ in the southern German town of Ravensburg, where he shared the mixing desk with old masters such as Jeff Mills, Laurent Garnier and Felix da Housecat. With the move to Hamburg in 1996, he also began working in A&R for labels such as Motor Music and Ladomat. In 1998, he and some friends founded their own 7" label, PARFÜM. Around this time he also began working with Andreas Dorau, for whom he produced many remixes and singles in his own sound studio. After moving to Barcelona in 2001 and a year as resident DJ at Nitsa Club, he and Max Turner created the studio and live project ‘Meteorites’, which was released on the label of Cristian Vogel and Jamie Lidell, and was met with critical acclaim. Back in Hamburg in 2004, Marcus Roßknecht worked for the renowned lawyers and artistic managers Zimmermann&Decker, also beginning his many years of work together with Matias Aguayo, whose two albums he produced, and with whom he spent three years playing the clubs of Europe and America. Alongside his freelance activities as a music producer, Marcus Roßknecht has been working since 2008 as a concept designer, video director and manager at Native Instruments – now predominantly on marketing the brand ‘MASCHINE’.
